Something Awful[sockhead], Music, WFMU, alcohol, hockey (go sabres!), journalism, reading, Russian literature, whiskey, sex, daydreaming, nerding it up in front of the XBox, humor, burritos, not getting sick, civil liberties, the eXile, driving around aimlessly, showering, sleeping, laughing, joking, pranks, learning, Grand Theft Auto (the games, not the act),
Who I don't want to meet: Flakes, furries, $cientologists, liberals with no sense of humor, liberals who are way too paranoid and believe everything at infowars - you're making intelligent liberals look bad.
Fuck you Tom, for making me have to write this all over again. I don't want to meet you, Tom. Maybe in a dark alley someday, though.
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The video above is Big Black performing Wire's "Heartbeat" with special guests Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert of Wire.
klezmercore, post-music, tangotronica, avant-barbershop, rastabilly, old-wave, industrial, residential, folk-metal, mexotica, glam-jazz, indie-soul, progressive garage, math-funk, drum-n-bluegrass, gangsta-swing, emo-rap
My 6 biggest lifetime influences: Pink Floyd, Guided By Voices, Wire, Can, The Who, Velvet Underground
Also - The Notwist, Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, TADUYA, Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, Joy Division, Curve, Lush, Unrest, Public Enemy, Coil, Sigur Ros, GY!BE, Trans Am, Skinny Puppy, Oxes, Soul Coughing, Pixies, ...Trail Of Dead, Dead Milkmen, Frank Zappa, Cleen, Killdozer, Butthole Surfers, Angela Conway, Dream Syndicate, Crooked Fingers, Flaming Lips, Mission Of Burma, Haujobb, LL Cool J, Sonic Youth, Wilco, Shellac, Dead Voices On Air, Morphine, Roxy Music, Yo La Tengo, Luna, Q And Not U, Crispy Ambulance, Jesus Lizard, Explosions in the Sky, John Cale, Archers Of Loaf, Lou Reed, Cocker Spaniels, TV On The Radio, Public Image Limited, Wesley Willis, PJ Harvey, Ex-Models, James, Ramones, Blur, Pulp, Severed Heads, New Order, Captain Beefheart, Dalek, Run DMC, Jandek, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Don Caballero, XTC, My Bloody Valentine, :Wumpscut, Front Line Assembly, Tepid Pancakes, Swans, Bruce Springsteen, David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, The Pretentious Artfags, Tony Conrad, Talking Heads, Weird Weeds, Brian Eno, The The, Tear Garden, Menomena, Tom Waits, Cheap Trick, Gridlock, Manitoba/Caribou, Leonard Cohen, every other R.E.M. album, Spiritualized, Catherine Wheel, Husker Du, Galaxie 500, lots more.
Strange Brew, Blade Runner, City Of Lost Children, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, 24 Hour Party People, Dell'Amorte Dell'Amore, Freaked, Salo, Schizopolis, Naked Gun and Airplane series, most anything with Zombies, anything by David Cronenberg or Terry Gilliam, Standing In the Shadows of Motown - probably more but those are my favorites.
Family Guy, Chappelle's Show, Simpsons, Futurama, Survivor, South Park, Da Ali G Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Rome, Prison Break, CNN, Crank Yankers, Mr. Show, Wonder Showzen, Heroes, Lost, 24, Twilight Zone, Sarah Silverman Program
Notes From Underground, The Brothers Karamazov, The eXile - Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia, Naked Lunch, Don Quixote, Spanking The Donkey, anything by Philip K Dick, J.G. Ballard or Thomas Pynchon, Candide and HOUSE OF LEAVES - BUY THIS NOW, DAMMIT!
Bob Pollard, Terry Gilliam, Meatwad, Bill Hicks, John Dolan and LESLIE FUCKING NIELSEN!Also, these 4 (it's about fucking time!):